MLB / Players

Dave Brown

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 165 lb

BornJune 9, 1897 · Marquez, TX, USA

Seasons7 (1919–1925)

Chicago American Giants 1919–1922; New York Lincoln Giants 1923–1925

Percentile snapshot

1924 season — qualified pitchers

45.4

48.5

49.2

51.5

85.4

SHO

43.8

154

59.2

76.2

35.4

111

93.1

71.5

189.0

61.5

ERA

2.38

98.5

WHIP

1.116

95.4

K/9

5.29

93.1

FIP

3.69

77.7

FIP-

84.1

91.5

ERA+

184.4

99.2

sWAR

5.9

96.9

of 131 qualified 1924 pitchers (min 63 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

20.3

93.7

sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.

Season by season

Batting

Season	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1919	5	11	10	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	.100	.100	.100	.200	-32.8	-43.7	.094	-0.2
1920	19	61	52	3	6	0	0	2	6	0	1	.115	.207	.115	.322	12.5	-3.1	.180	4.2
1921	22	57	55	4	9	2	0	3	1	4	0	.164	.179	.200	.379	12.8	6.8	.179	4.7
1922	28	63	53	6	3	1	0	5	7	6	0	.057	.167	.075	.242	-9.0	-33.0	.141	3.6
1923	16	33	27	6	11	1	1	5	4	0	0	.407	.484	.556	1.039	175.5	190.9	.479	1.6
1924	31	83	77	11	24	1	0	6	5	0	0	.312	.354	.325	.678	88.3	85.0	.325	5.9
1925	1	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.667	74.0	73.1	.308	0.4

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1919	4	3	1	2	0	0	0	17	7	9	6	0	14.3	4.40	1.814	3.77	3.51	107.0	74.7	-0.2
1920	18	15	12	3	0	13	2	77	27	49	97	0	141.7	1.72	.889	6.16	2.99	83.4	209.2	4.2
1921	22	16	15	1	2	13	5	107	31	33	115	2	151.7	1.84	.923	6.82	2.83	71.5	215.2	4.7
1922	28	14	13	3	1	8	3	136	51	55	103	2	155.0	2.96	1.232	5.98	4.04	86.2	158.1	3.6
1923	13	8	5	6	0	6	0	90	29	22	47	2	74.7	3.50	1.500	5.67	3.51	88.9	113.0	1.6
1924	28	19	14	8	1	17	1	154	50	57	111	3	189.0	2.38	1.116	5.29	3.69	84.1	184.4	5.9
1925	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	7	1	7	8	0	9.0	1.00	1.556	8.00	5.37	110.0	488.0	0.4

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

122

311

277

RBI

.1986

OBP

.2600

SLG

.2274

OPS

.4874

Pitching

G (P)

114

SHO

735

SO (P)

487

BB allowed

232

ERA

2.399

WHIP

1.1151

K/9

5.96

A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.

Best games

Batting

Date	Game	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1923-07-29	CSE @ NYL Gameday	3	3	3	0	1	2	1	6
1923-09-09	BBS @ NYL Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	2	0	3
1921-09-18	SLS @ CAG Gameday	3	1	2	1	0	1	0	3
1923-08-05	HIL @ NYL Gameday	3	0	2	1	0	1	0	3
1920-06-01	CUB @ CAG Gameday	4	1	2	0	0	1	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1920-05-16	DAY @ CAG Gameday	6.0	1	0	0	2	10
1921-05-07	KCM @ CAG Gameday	9.0	1	0	0	3	9
1923-09-03	BG @ NYL Gameday	9.0	12	2	2	3	9
1921-09-04	CAG @ KCM Gameday	8.0	5	3	3	1	9
1922-06-14	CAG @ SLS Gameday	8.0	7	3	3	3	9

Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.